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Inferno (Hardcover)

The World at War, 1939-1945

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    An indelible account of what World War II was like for the people who experienced it, from soldiers at the front to civilians both near and far from the fighting, to the generals and political leaders making the decisions that affected the lives of mil......more

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An indelible account of what World War II was like for the people who experienced it, from soldiers at the front to civilians both near and far from the fighting, to the generals and political leaders making the decisions that affected the lives of millions.

While other great histories of the war have focused primarily on generals and politicians, Inferno is unique in its portrait of everyday people--of American and British housewives, Soviet infantrymen, Indian peasants, and Luftwaffe crew. Max Hastings provides a singularly intimate account of the war. But the larger context is here, too: Hastings widens his focus to explain the geopolitics and larger strategic considerations of the war, from Hitler`s refusal to retreat in Russia until it was too late, to Stalin`s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the Germans, to Churchill`s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941, to Roosevelt`s steady leadership before and after the United States entered the war. Flawlessly written and bracingly opinionated and argued, Inferno is a new and essential understanding of one of the most significant events of the twentieth century.

Author:
Hastings, Max
ISBN:
9780307273598
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
729
Publish Date:
11/01/2011
Publisher:
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Language:
English

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  • Hastings continues a recent substantial body of general audience writing on WWII (Armageddon; Retribution,) in this equally well-researched and well-presented account focusing on the conflict's human dimension, looking at both soldiers and civilians, members of both Allies and Axis. For millions of ordinary people the war was "hell let loose," imposing, at the least, drastic change and, at worst, incomprehensible horror-60 million died. Participants assembled the "vast jigsaw puzzle" of war with the pieces they had and made sense of it in terms of their own circumstances. Hastings succeeds admirably in synthesizing the results in a globe-girdling context from Guadalcanal to the Dnieper River. He establishes, in some sense, the temporary nature of war-that soldiers seldom lost their identity as civilians in uniform, and civilians counted the days until normality returned. That mind-set determined the war's nature: structured by mass participation and institutional effectiveness. In Russia, for instance, the German invasion led to "a surge of popular enthusiasm" to support Russia, followed rapidly by despair and men trying to evade the draft. As Hastings makes clear, the war's impact also outlasted the conflict: for decades people judged one another by their wartime behavior; for many the psychological impact of the horrors never left them. Illus., maps. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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